Maestro & multi pgcs

Maestro & multi pgcs 

I am trying to re-encode "the gift". Cant get scenarist to write the PGCS correctly - the set up is weird - VTS1 contains 3 PGCs PGC1 - 178Mb blank screen - No audio PGC2 - 6Gig movie - 2 audio tracks PGC3 - Blank still frame - no audio Do i need to define titles under the VTS heading for each PGC or is it a PGC directly off the VTS folder? Secondly - If I wanted to do this under Maestro is there a guide yet as to how to do it - Ifoupdate is a cool tool for stuff like this - I just dont know how to make best use of it. Finally - If I have a multiPGC movie with the main movie at the begining - can I just re-encode the main movie and join the film back together with Vobedit? Hope you can help :-)

I've started working on an IFOUpdate/DVDMaestro guide. I'll post it soon.

ww000tttttt......jdobsss..youre the man :)0 we neeeded a IFOUpdate/DVDMaestro guide like that ....its just that thescenarist guide from doom is great ..however those dummy cells are killing me:).....will we have to work with dummy cells when u use maestro in your guide as well for multipgc's????

for DVDMaestro, put all three into the one Movie, put your chapters in, then create a playlist for each PGC, compile and you'll have to use ifoedit (not sure exactly how) to remove the first PGC which is the whole VTS. Enf..

The newest version of IFOUpdate has a special Maestro mode for removing that first PGC.

I've beaten 4 PGC's 

Used IFOUpdate 0.53 to sort 4 PGC title np today.... Analysis beforehand steered me wrong a bit.. Chapter assignment information for DVDMaestro: - Playlist (PGC) #4 [VOB Sector: 0] - 00:00:00:00 - Playlist (PGC) #3 [VOB Sector: 50304] - 00:02:23:00 - Playlist (PGC) #2 [VOB Sector: 50304] - This Playlist uses the chapter point(s) identified in Playlist #3 - Playlist (PGC) #1 [VOB Sector: 54105] - 00:02:35:20 - 00:06:25:16 - 00:09:22:07 when I authed in this sequence I was unable to use create synch audio and kept losing synch.. or more acurrately.. not getting synch to start with.. PGC4 ac3 was 2ch-192 / PGC2+3 and PGC1 ac3 was 6ch-384. tried audo transcode and substitition but synch remained off.. until I used my brain and put PGC4 at END of timeline NOT start as suggested by analysis... had to manually update chapters to reflect this.. and align PGC4 audio with end of PGC1 separately on track 5 Could then use create synch audio np... PGC4 still present in playlist... and IFOUpdate made necessary adjustments for re-integration np... all features and functions perfect... think the PGC source can be anywhere in the timeline btw.. as long as playlist ID's correct segment should still work np..

I'd like to get this right, so please help me to understand this. Do you mean that even though PGC#4 started at sector 0, it was not the first thing (physically) in the VOBs (VTS_0n_1- VTS_0n_n)? It should have been your LAST PGC, but would have contained the chapter starting at 00:00:00:00, right? Did you use DVD2AVI as the frame server for the project? The analysis assumes you are going to encode the entire VTS in one sweep, was that how you did it? If you playback the VOB directly with Mediaplayer, does PGC#4 play first? Thanks, jdobbs

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